Another fun video

a reply to: Zaphod58
One day we should organize an ATS members meeting there during an exercise.

a reply to: thebozeian

That would be great. My next trip to Jedi I'm gonna spend a couple of days there. I'm hoping that something fun will come through. There's been some interesting stuff running the canyon lately.

originally posted by: thebozeian
a reply to: Zaphod58
One day we should organize an ATS members meeting there during an exercise.

If I could get to the states in short notice I'd love to head over whether you'd want a pesky Brit hovering around you guys is a different question lol

Zaph .. what would you class as fun or interesting?

a reply to: ThePeaceMaker

Planes.

C-5 that was down for a week while they worked to get the seats out of the flight crew's asses.

a reply to: anzha

Got some amazing shots of the takeoff.

a reply to: Zaphod58

Zaph do you have any further backstory on the C5 video?

a reply to: Bfirez

They were going into Diego, in a slight cloud layer. They had a slat issue, that disabled the stick shaker, and the AC became engrossed in something that was one the INS, and didn't notice that they had gone slightly nose up. Since they didn't have a stick shaker, they got into a deep stall, and went through the maneuvers you saw, after they stalled. They seated an FEB, and gave the pilot a choice. He could either go through the FEB and risk his wings, which would possibly risk his civilian status with the airline he flew for (reserve AC, active copilot), or he could voluntarily surrender his wings. He chose the latter.

a reply to: Zaphod58

When the copilot was giving the calls of go nose down under 1500 ft it panicked me just thinking about it lol. Thought it's probably the right move, dumping the nose of a stalling c5 at that height scares the # out of me.

a reply to: Bfirez

You can get the nose up to 18 degrees. Go to 19 and you stall. The copilot did exactly right. She noticed them going nose up and spoke up, but she could have been more assertive about it. But she did exactly right. So did he once he got away from the INS issue.

Loved seeing the Sandy in the F-16 flight.

The C-5 vid has high pucker-factor! :-o

Project Tom-Tom

a reply to: Zaphod58

Imagine what you could do with a computerized flight control system and a couple lasers...